This well-written book gives us a detailed (almost day-by-day) account of the 33-year career of a rugged outdoorsman of whom most of us have never...
Dave Rust: A Life in the Canyons (Nonfiction)
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Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway (Nonfiction)
The authors have a great sense of humor for their passion, which is to be admired. Anyone who travels the country in search of rock formations,...
Country Music Originals (Nonfiction)
Students and lovers of today's Country music will appreciate this scholarly recognition of the pioneers responsible for introducing their music to...
Hard Road West (Nonfiction)
Meldahl, a geologist, has personally inspected the entire 2,000-mile Overland Trail to Gold Rush California while, at the same time, collecting...
Landscapes of Colorado (Nonfiction)
The photographic art and paintings in this coffee table tome are amazing. The opening contains 19th-century photographs of the stunning Colorado...
The Legend of Billy Jenks and Other Wyoming Stories (Fiction)
These seven short stories are masterfully written, in lyrical language, by an author genuinely familiar with Wyoming and its people. Within these...
Rider of Death Valley (Fiction)
Death Valley was ominously named in the days of unmarked, poisonous water holes and resentful tribesmen. When horse hunter Johnny Lightfoot rides...
Trinidad, Colorado
Trinidad, Colorado, is one town that can boast the town founder's home is not only still around, but also maintains the Victorian style of its...
Hampton Sides
At first, I thought of Kit Carson as a quasi-fictitious character, some mythic gunslinger or Wild West show performer. I didn't realize he was a...
Cowhorse Tango
If you've ever gripped your seat on a roller coaster, then you have an inkling of what it feels like to ride a cutting horse. My first time riding a...
Crookedest Railroad Turns New Bend
Model railroads didn't do a thing for Jim Clark when he was a kid growing up in Milwaukee and California in the 1940s and 1950s, but the real thing...
Not Just a Sea Plague
"Before the railroad, in the days of stage-coaching, the Western traveler subsisted principally on fried bacon and canned tomatoes," wrote Lt. John...